How to combine objectives and methods of evaluation in iterative ILE design: lessons learned from designing Ambre-add

Abstract

This article deals with evaluating an interactive learning environment (ILE) during the iterative-design process. Various aspects of the system must be assessed and a number of evaluation methods are available. In designing the ILE AMBREadd, several techniques were combined to test and refine the system. In particular, we point out the merits of combining measures of the ILE's impact on learning with analyses of the learner's activity. In this article, the approach used to evaluate AMBRE-add is described and analyzed, and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Then, a general procedure for evaluating ILEs during iterative design is proposed.

Building and Analyzing a Corpus of Contextualized Traces Collected during a Technology Enhanced Teaching Module

“…Such traces are analyzed on-line to help tutors better supervise the learning sessions [1] and to adapt the activities to the learners' activity [2]. Traces can also be subject to offline analyses with different goals like reengineering of TEL environments [3], adapting a learning scenario [4], or analyzing interactions [5].…”